How do you kill a FeedDemon? Apparently, all it takes is a decision from Google.

In a blog post, Nick Bradbury, the founder of the popular RSS feed manager FeedDemon, cites Google's call to shutter Google Reader on July 1 as the final "nail in the coffin" for his desktop and laptop app. Bradbury mentions numerous serious concerns, such as spending time with his family and recently being forced to take a day job, but he also talks about the inner workings of FeedDemon.

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The software, he explains, relies on Reader for synchronization, "and there's no decent alternative," he says. Bradbury announced on Twitter that he plans to create a version of FeedDemon without Google Reader sync, and then release it for free before the July 1 deadline.

"I think it's great that Feedly and Digg are hoping to replace the Reader API -- and I hope they succeed -- but FeedDemon's demise has been a long time coming," Bradbury wrote to CNET in an e-mail today. "I haven't been able to work on it for quite a while and knew I'd have to kill it eventually, and the end of Reader was the event that forced me to pull the trigger."